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Katie Sims / Sun Staff Photographer ROHINGYA Prof Urges Students to Consider Oppression of The Rohingya By Victoria Moore The Rohingya crisis has been termed a “textbook example of…
Tag: Asia
SHADOW OVER BURMA: THE ROHINGYA CRISIS IN CONTEXT
By Elisa Sandri In late August, alarming reports and harrowing images started to surface from Myanmar. It soon became clear that Rohingya people—a Muslim minority living in a…
Surplus value and care
D.D.Kosambi’s summary of Buddhist political economy circa 500bc. From ‘The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline’ 1964. (P113 1996 reprint by Vikas Publishi…
Statues – 1970 Kolkata.
Mrinal Sen’s great film Interview begins with a few shots of the removal of colonial statues from the Maidan in Calcutta, shipped off to a closed space in…
A Dyak Carrying Basket
The Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution holds a large ethnographic collection from Maritime Southeast Asia. This Dyak basket was collected not long …
A Japanese Packbasket
Here I present another of the Asian packbaskets that I examined in the ethnology collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (See…
English heritage trinkets
Apparently on sale at National Trust sites are mugs with this marking underneath. Thanks Katherine S for the pointer. My view is to welcome this as an historically…
Death in Mazar-I Sharif
by Magnus Marsden The brutal killing of up to 140 Afghan Army soldiers on April 22nd at an army base located near the city of Mazar-i Sharif in…
Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10)
[A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of a previous plan, now offcuts in the sawdust.] Ethnography as a hobby or…
Who Is Ecotourism’s Winner – Nature, Culture or Capital?
by Sara Loh ‘Capitalism thrives on crisis. This is its engine of innovation and creativity’ – Sian Sullivan For neoliberal conservationists around the world, the environmental crisis has…
Snip – day three casualties. Kill your darlings. Draft paras that did not make the final edit
Of course the screen has long been a global industry with a global logistics, and every ‘international’ production – a movie, drama or news – involves battalions of…
Begum Jaan – trailer (remake of Rajkahini, রাজকাহিনী)
For those in need of an alternative to Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, in April 2017 we will get the Hindi film Begum Jaan, I hope soon also for a UK…
Bangladeshi Cinema and Tanvir Mokammel’s “1971”, a review of John Hood’s ‘The Bleeding Lotus’
:: Prepare yourself for trauma. John Hood’s book The Bleeding Lotus: Notions of nation in Bangladeshi Cinema (2015, Palimpsest) is not intended primarily as a gore-fest horror but…
Precarity as Freedom? Youth, Neoliberalism and the Dissolution of ‘Japan, Inc.’
by Shuto Fukuoka It would not be an overstatement to say that the Japanese youth of today are significantly foreign to the one a couple of decades ago,…
Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Bo Kyeong Seo A new tertiary hospital building is under construction in Chiang Mai. / Photo: B.K. Seo When new epidemics hit…
Don’t Miss the Quilts of Southwest China Exhibition Opening at MMWC
While the coming week will be diverse and full as always, I have one big hope–that many friends, colleagues, campus citizens, and community members will come out for…
Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…
Orientalism for kids – again
Am gearing up for another round of kiddy tv and hoping there are new programmes since the mind worms of Iggle Piggle and Peppa Pig did their damage. This…
Finding Peace on a Psychiatric Ward with Yoga: Report on a Pilot Anthropological Study in Pondicherry, India
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Krzysztof Bierski Photo 1. Male patient practicing bhrāmarī prāṇāyāma with a gesture of closing of external sensory perception yōnimudrā. (screenshot of a…
Roundtable Report: “Globalization of Asian Cuisines”
To celebrate the publication of “Globalization of Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Culinary Contact Zones,” three of the edited volume’s authors—Stephanie Assmann, James Farrer, and David Wa…
Psychische Leiden und Krankheiten im kulturellen Vergleich – ein Interview mit Helene Basu
Frau Prof. Dr. Helene Basu ist Professorin am Institut für Ethnologie in Münster und bietet seit 2007 regelmäßig Lehrveranstaltungen zur „Transkulturellen Psychiatrie“. In ihren Forschungen beschäfti…
Judith Beyer & Felix Girke: Naypyitaw: Rescaling materiality, capitalizing space
Since 2012, we have carried out twelve months of urban anthropological research in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city and its economic and cultural center. Until February 2016, however, we…
Tibetan Formulas in Interdisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives – Translating ‘Wind’ Disorders and Stress in Tibetan Medicine (Workshop Report)
Mona Schrempf A physician of Tibetan medicine compounding a formula for his patient | Nagchu, Tibet (TAR), 2003. Photo by Mona Schrempf This three-day workshop (May 8-10, 2015)…